[SURNAMES] [ALLIED FAMILIES] [FAMILY LETTERS] [ENSLAVED FAMILIES] [FAMILY SKELETONS] [SPINSTERS & BACHELORS]
Welcome to my homepage. Once I get things up and running, I hope to be able to share with you the work I have accumulated over twelve years of research on various American families and the communities that they lived. Please contact me with your questions, comments, edits, and any new information you would like to share. Below are a list of various topics to help guide you through this site.
SURNAMES & TOPIC LIST: These family names represent direct ancestors that will be the main focus of this page.
BEATTY (Montgomery,KY); BENNETT (Granville,NC); BIGGS (North Carolina>AR>TX>CA); BRESSIE (Virginia>NC); BRERETON (Northumberland, Virginia); BUCKBERROUGH/BUCKBERRY (Ontario, Canada); BURNS (Georgia>CA) CHISHOLM (TN>AR>OK); CLAIBORNE (ENG>VA); COHOE (IRE>PA>ONT,CANADA) DAVIS (VA>Stokes,NC); DAVIS (Sussex, New Jersey); DINGMAN (Holland>NY); DOYLE (Ireland>Syracuse,NY); DUDLEY (Virginia) FULTON (PA>MD>Stokes,NC GARDINIER (Holland>NY); GOOCH (Viginia families); GOOCH (Granville Co., NC); GORDON(NJ>ONT,CANADA); GREEN (Sussex, New Jersey>ONT,CANADA) HAYWARD (Essex,ENG>ONT,CAN>IL>OR); HOOPER (Devon,ENG>ONT,CAN); JONES (Northumberland,VA>Granville,NC); KING (Virginia>TN>GA>AR>NM>CA); MAHAR/MEAGHER (IRE>Oswego,NY); McANALLY (Scotland>PA>VA>NC); McCARTHY (Ireland>OSWEGO,NY); McFARLANE (New Jersey); MEE (Virginia>TN); MISENER (New Jersey>ONT,CANADA); MORGAN (Stokes,NC) OBRIANT (Granville,NC); ONEAL (Kentucky>IN>CA); OSTRANDER (Holland>NY>ONT,CANADA); PETTIT (MA>NJ>ONT,CANADA); RAGLAND (Wales>VA>NC); REDMAN (VA>Stokes,NC); RIDER (Essex, ENG); ROGERS (TN>AR>OK); SEE (PA>VA>KY>IN>MO>TX>CA); SNEED (VA>NC); STUBBINGS (Essex,ENG) TRAPHAGEN (NJ>NY); TWITTY (Lunenburg,VA)CHEROKEE OLD SETTLERS; GRANVILLE CO., NORTH CAROLINA; SAN LUIS OBISPO CO., CALIFORNIA; STOKES CO., NORTH CAROLINA
ALLIED FAMILIES (by location): If you don't see your family names listed above, those listed under this heading are the collateral lines that I have collected information on. Some of this information will be found on this Website, some are kept in my personal archives.
SPINSTERS & BACHELORS: The natural focus of genealogy is to trace individuals who marry and procreated; for they are the ones who make future generations possible. Researchers, myself included, often find greater interest in one's direct ancestors and often neglect looking at the family as a whole. Therefore, in the process of family research those who did not leave issue are often obscured or edited out of our history. In my many years of research, I have come to recognized the important role that unmarried individuals played in the family and would like to attempt to recognize their contributions in relationship to the families listed above.
AFRICAN/EUROPEAN/INDIAN FAMILY HISTORY (the ancestry of enslaved people): During my many years of research I have accumulated information on those people who were enslave by my ancestors in both the American South and in the Northern States of NJ and NY. In recent years I have been working with descendants of these people in hopes of uncovering at least in part the stories of their lives.
FAMILY LETTERS: This is my archive of transcribed family papers. These letters have helped me a great deal to get the feeling of people and places. Most of these documents are fragments of family corresponding spaning from the early 19th century into the early 20th century. Maybe some day, I can add copies of the actual letters, but for now you will have to make do with these transcripts. To help the reader, I have also annotated each letter with footnotes identifying people and places. If you have relevant family letters, please contact me.
FAMILY SKELETONS, SCOUNDRALS, & SCANDALS: This page is partly just for fun. Genealogy can be awfully dry and tedious, so occasionally some of us enjoy running across a bit of shocking material on our ancestors. On the more serious side, these tales and accounts are also telling, both about the individual and the world they lived in. These stories are not meant to offend anyone, but they do remind us that people are human afterall.
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